Bedrock AgentCore, launched by AWS in 2025, solves a different problem than most tools in this category: it doesn't build agents, it runs them in production at enterprise scale, regardless of which framework built them. Code written with LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, or a custom framework can deploy through AgentCore without being rewritten for AWS-specific infrastructure.
That framework-agnostic runtime handles the operational problems that show up once an agent moves from a demo to production: authenticated access to internal APIs and knowledge bases through a managed gateway, session and memory management across long-running interactions, and observability that shows exactly which steps an agent took and where it went wrong. Security policies are verified using the same automated-reasoning technology behind AWS IAM and S3 access controls.
Pricing runs on AWS's usage-based cloud model rather than a flat subscription, with no free consumer tier since it's built for enterprise deployment. For a company that has already built agents with any framework and needs to run them securely and observably at production scale rather than as a prototype, AgentCore addresses the infrastructure gap most agent-building tools leave for someone else to solve.
